The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate. Nancy Pearcey More Quotes by Nancy Pearcey More Quotes From Nancy Pearcey To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. Nancy Pearcey consequence phrases idols For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. Nancy Pearcey male-dominance males levels In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses. Nancy Pearcey college christian school The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally. Nancy Pearcey demand support cost Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. Nancy Pearcey myopic doubt giving Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. Nancy Pearcey jargon literary-theory literature Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information Nancy Pearcey data class ideas Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day. Nancy Pearcey knowing steps firsts During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. Nancy Pearcey easter christian jesus The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture Nancy Pearcey artistic-talent culture way America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power. Nancy Pearcey information political america In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference. Nancy Pearcey gnosticism suffering attitude Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits. Nancy Pearcey leaving giving fall When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding. Nancy Pearcey moral christian wonder The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes. Nancy Pearcey views world Artists are often the barometers of society. Nancy Pearcey barometer artist In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. Nancy Pearcey historical odds religious The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity. Nancy Pearcey social christian stones We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles. Nancy Pearcey block intellectual principles A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. Nancy Pearcey materialistic regimes doe
